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The author talks about picking up a book as an alternative to your phone or watching TV as a post dinner activity. If anything, modern life has consolidated act
by shrumm 7y ago
The author talks about picking up a book as an alternative to your phone or watching TV as a post dinner activity. If anything, modern life has consolidated activities from specialised ‘things’ like radios, phones, books, TV to computing devices. I’ve been reading on my iPad and phone for years now.
This makes me wonder what the impact is to kids - since they learn so much by watching you.
If you pick up a book, you arouse their curiosity to do the same. If you pick up a phone and launch an epub reader - not so much.
- elyobo 7y agoI have a similar concern with my daughter; I have a Kindle and have had for years, have more or less ceased reading physical books, and do most of my reading before sleeping - so while I read daily, my daughter sees very little of it and almost never something that looks like a book!
- LorenPechtel 7y agoInteresting point. These days 99% of my reading is on a screen. I don't have kids to be influenced by this but it makes modern reading pretty much invisible to young kids.